Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2012
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 10, 2012, 6:01 AM CDT for Howard County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 2012, 6:01 AM CDT (11:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2012, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Howard County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 7:30 AM CDT | FLOOD | Big Spring, TX | E 6TH STREET UNDER .5 TO 3 FEET OF WATER. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 72 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2623 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
236 WGUS54 KMAF 101101 FFWMAF TXC227-101400- /O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0003.120510T1101Z-120510T1400Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 601 AM CDT THU MAY 10 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN HOWARD COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS... * UNTIL 900 AM CDT * AT 556 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED FLASH FLOODING FROM THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES WEST OF BIG SPRING TO 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BIG SPRING... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. RADAR INDICATES RAINFALL RATES OF ONE TO TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. * THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... BIG SPRING... SAND SPRINGS... MIDWAY... COAHOMA... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS... URBAN AREAS... HIGHWAYS... STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. && LAT...LON 3235 10168 3235 10127 3210 10127 3210 10169 $$
1 follow-up statement
007 WGUS74 KMAF 101246 FFSMAF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 746 AM CDT THU MAY 10 2012 TXC227-101400- /O.CON.KMAF.FF.W.0003.000000T0000Z-120510T1400Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ HOWARD- 746 AM CDT THU MAY 10 2012 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM CDT FOR SOUTHERN HOWARD COUNTY... AT 741 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUE TO DETECT THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING OVER THE WARNED AREA. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO SAND SPRINGS...MIDWAY...COAHOMA AND BIG SPRING. BIG SPRING AIRPORT HAS REPORTED OVER 1.30 INCHES OF RAIN AS OF 730 AM CDT. ANOTHER HALF AN INCH TO AN INCH OF RAINFALL IS ANTICIPATED THROUGHOUT THE DAY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. MOST FLOODING DEATHS ARE PREVENTABLE. TURN AROUND... DONT DROWN. && LAT...LON 3235 10168 3235 10127 3210 10127 3210 10169 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 8:52 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Upton | 3 hr |
| May 10, 12:41 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Crane, Ector, Loving, Ward, Winkler | 3 hr |
| May 10, 1:47 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Ector | 3 hr |
| May 10, 4:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MAF | Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 13 more | 25 hr |
| May 10, 4:43 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Midland | 3 hr |
| May 10, 5:45 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Howard, Martin | 3 hr |
| May 10, 6:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 3 hr |
| May 10, 6:32 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Crane, Reagan, Upton | 3 hr |
| May 10, 6:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Reagan | 4 hr |
| May 10, 7:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector, Midland | 3 hr |
| May 10, 8:15 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Brewster, Pecos, Terrell | 3 hr |
| May 10, 9:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Howard, Martin | 3 hr |
| May 10, 9:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 3 hr |
| May 10, 10:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector, Midland | 3 hr |
| May 10, 11:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 4 hr |
| May 10, 11:51 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Scurry | 3 hr |
| May 10, 12:15 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Glasscock, Howard | 3 hr |
| May 10, 1:12 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Ector, Midland | 3 hr |
| May 10, 2:41 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Scurry | 3 hr |
| May 10, 3:07 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Borden | 3 hr |
| May 10, 3:20 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Howard | 3 hr |
| May 10, 3:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Mitchell, Scurry | 3 hr |
| May 10, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Terrell | 54 min |
| May 10, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 63 min |
| May 10, 5:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Ector | 3 hr |
| May 10, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 52 min |
| May 10, 5:55 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Pecos, Reeves | 3 hr |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.